06.12.2025

Russian Naval Exercises in Red Sea and Sea of Okhotsk

The statement read: “The frigate ‘Marshal Shaposhnikov’, accompanied by the tanker ‘Boris Butoma’, passed through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and entered the Red Sea.” The statement added: “Before entering the Red Sea, the detachment’s crews crossed the Gulf of Aden, where they conducted a series of naval exercises involving various scenarios against a virtual enemy.” On September 19, the press office of the Russian Pacific Fleet announced that the multi-purpose nuclear submarines ‘Krasnoyarsk’ and ‘Omsk’ successfully launched cruise missiles at a naval target in the Sea of Okhotsk, as part of command and staff exercises for the Pacific Fleet. The statement mentioned that “the submarines fired ‘Onyx’ and ‘Granite’ missiles from the Sea of Okhotsk at a naval target more than 250 kilometers away, and all three missiles hit the target directly according to objective monitoring data.”

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